By Kerrie Fuller Associate Director of Engagement MemberWise Network As part of our series of articles on key segments of the Membership Sector, in this article we focus on Students’ Unions (SU). There are over 600 students’ unions in the UK, the first being created in 1884 at Edinburgh University. Their role is to lobby, [...]
In the lead up to this year’s national membership focused digital conference, Digital Excellence 2019, we interview a selection of Digital Leaders who have achieved ground breaking online member focused results and will share their inspirational online success stories. Digital Leaders represent leading membership bodies including The National Trust, NAHT, RIBA, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, [...]
The summer months have traditionally provided membership bodies with ‘time out’ to plan/prepare for member focused activity taking place in September and November. A lot of new staff recruitment related activity tends to grind to a halt and we think this is a MASSIVE opportunity missed particularly if you are looking for a ‘Super Hero’. [...]
We're now midway through the year and it feels right to revisit the Membership & Association Sector's 7 Key Priorities identified at the start of the year. These key priories were established via the statistically significant findings contained in the Digital Excellence 2019 Survey Summary Report (free to download via our online professional community, MemberWise [...]
By Kerrie Fuller Associate Director of Engagement MemberWise Network Sport England recognise 155 National Sports Bodies in the UK – set up to be the governing body for every sport that you can think of, however small. Sport England is the public body that invests funding into these sports bodies and works with them to [...]
By Kerrie Fuller Associate Director of Engagement MemberWise Network A delegation from the New South Wales Business Chamber were over in the UK collecting best practice from the membership sector and in return, gave us an insight into their membership strategy. In this article we share the top 5 lessons we can learn from this [...]
Author: Jon Smith, Head of Digital, YHA (England and Wales) About 18 months ago, I gave a talk at the annual MemberWise Digital Excellence conference in London. I spoke about plans for YHA England & Wales to simplify its old, outdated and complex membership scheme in a bid to remain relevant to today’s customers, guests [...]
In this article we provide a guidance not on how professional membership bodies can enable members to gain up to 40% off their annual membership subscription fee via tax relief approval (via inclusion on the HMRC List 3). In real terms you could provide your members with this discount (indirectly via inclusion), however continue [...]
Introduction The MemberWise Network is pleased to announce the launch of a dedicated new online professional networking group exclusively for Directors and C-Suite Executives working for the largest and most influential membership organisations and associations in the UK. The group is free to join and is launched in response to [...]
The MemberWise Network has published a comprehensive suite of job description templates to help membership organisations and associations better communicate senior stakeholder roles/responsibilities. Below we provide you with clear job/role description templates that your organisation can personalise in order to ensure responsibilities are clearly communicated ‘from the get go’. We have created helpful templates [...]
